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• Agricultural prices--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Cotton growing--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820.
• Eaton, John Rust, 1772-1830.
• Horse breeders--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837.
• Marion, Robert, 1766-1811.
• Plantation owners--North Carolina.
• Real property--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Somervell, James.
• Tobacco--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• United States--Foreign relations--1783-1815.
• United States--Politics and government--1789-1809.
• Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
• Winchester, James, 1752-1826.
• Winder, William Henry, 1775-1824.

Planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder.

Two letters from John Rust Eaton to his father, Charles Rust Eaton (1743-1822), and seventeen letters to John Rust Eaton--one from William H. Winder (b. 1775), two from Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837), eight from James Winchester (1752-1826), one from William Richardson Davie (1756-1820), three from James Somervell, one from Robert Marion (1766-1811), and one from Benjamin Williams (1754-1814). Subjects discussed include national politics and relations with England, horse breeding, tobacco and cotton farming in Tennessee, land Eaton owned in Tennessee and prices of other land there, and prices of farm products in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Most of these letters were published in James Sprunt Historical Publications, vol. 9, no. 1 (1910), pp. 27-59, with an introduction and notes by J. D. de Roulhac Hamilton, and a copy of this publication is included with the papers.